At least the performances are solid.
Twisted (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 2
Rotten:128
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Consensus: Don't expect any mysteries or thrills in this poorly written thriller.
Theatrical Release:Feb 27, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $25,047,335
Synopsis: Against the moody, fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront, police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this... Against the moody, fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront, police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, QUILLS). Jessica, a San Francisco street cop, has been appointed detective by Police Commissioner John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), her surrogate father and mentor. Together with her new partner Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia), she goes after her first assignment, a murder, and is ready for anything until she realizes that the corpse is a man she once slept with. What seems like a bizarre coincidence becomes all too suspicious when the next murder victim is also an acquaintance of the police detective--who is also a blackout drinker with an appetite for anonymous, rough sex. Nightly she returns home, drinks a glass of red wine, and awakens to the news of another victim. Haunted by her own family tragedy (her father went on an insane killing spree and killed her own mother and himself), Jessica begins to doubt her own sanity and suspect herself to be the killer. [More]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong, Mark Pellegrino, Camryn Manheim, D.W. Moffett
Director: Philip Kaufman
Director: Philip Kaufman
Screenwriter: Sarah Thorp
Producer: Arnold Kopelson, Anne Kopelson, Barry Baeres, Linne Radmin
Composer: Mark Isham
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Release:
Mar 10, 2009
DVD Features:
- Region [unknown]
- NTSC
- Keep Case - Sensormatic
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- Dolby Digital Surround - English, French
Additional Release Material:
Featurette:
- 2. The Inspectors: Clues to the Crime
- 3. San Francisco: Scene of the Crime
Additional Scenes:
- 1. Cutting Room Floor with Commentary
- 2. Mike Plays Piano - extended
- 3. Mike Talks About The Thumbtacks - extended
- 4. Extended Blackout #1
- 5. Extended Boat Ride
- 6. Zinfandel On The Roof - extended
- 7. Mike Talks About Castanets - extended
- 8. Extended Blackout #2
- 9. Condom Scene - extended
- 10. Jess Blows Up And Is Comforted By Mills - deleted
- 11. Extended Chase Scene
Audio Commentary:
- 1. Philip Kaufman - Director
Reviews for Twisted
Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia and David Strathairn all are wasted.
This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
Overcooked dialogue, some wildly implausible story devices, and a dearth of remotely likable characters, and Twisted is a crime story that just doesn't pay.
Twisted is so bad I'm embarrassed to have seen it and therefore am a bit ashamed to write even an unkind review.
Sarah Thorpe’s screenplay is a compendium of by-the-book clichés; Kaufman’s direction leaves the material stranded in a limbo between po-faced and trashy; Judd’s approximation of drunkenness is worrying to behold.
Just like nearly all of Judd's past entries in the genre, this film isn't great, it's just average.
Judd, Jackson and Garcia's work is pedestrian at best. But they did accept this script.
I didn’t go to sleep and only looked at my watch a couple of times, so I guess it wasn’t terrible.
The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won’t believe a word of it.
Una de esas película que sin el cast que tiene pasaría sin pena ni gloria al olvido.
Sou contra a pena de morte, mas teria o maior prazer em ajudar a prender a protagonista deste filme na cadeira elétrica e dar o comando 'Roll on two!'.
It is sad to see an actress as talented as Ashley Judd repeatedly appearing in these women-in-distress movies.
A horrible waste of talent, time and money and has the potential to be one of the worst films 2004 has to offer.
You've seen better mysteries on Murder She Wrote, you'll hear better dialogue in an Ed Wood flick, and you'll experience better sex scenes on a hot day at your local zoo.
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